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Gay and lesbians of Middle Eastern region who reside in the United States often battle the contradictory stereotypes considering their sexuality and their race. As Muslims, Christians and Jews, From Armenia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and Sudan, they have all labored to accept themselves and the sexuality regardless of the risk of condemnation of family and friends. This award-winning movie characteristics meetings with a kind of juvenile men, women and their families who share with viewers some of the knowledge, delights and sorrows of this varied community. Timely and groundbreaking I Exist presents voice to an assembly that has long stayed quiet out of disgrace and fear.

Gay persons live in Armenia, Syria, Iran, Egypt and Sudan too. They are Christians, Muslims and Jews, belonging to and turned down by their own cultures. In this sequence of interview we discover a bit about their inhabits and discover a couple of critiques of western newspapers and its oversimplified, often contradictory portrayals of these peoples and cultures.

I Exist is a 56-minute documentary discovering one-by-one excursions of Lesbian and Gay persons of Middle Eastern heritage dwelling in the United States.

The heritage and devout trials that numerous Lesbian and Gay Middle Eastern persons tolerate are unparalleled. This documentary displays the excursion numerous take in discovering how to connect both their heritage and gender identity.

Even with these trials, tales of wish appear and display that a familys love can habitually win over abhorrence and ignorance

In a sequence of emotional meetings, queers of Middle Eastern source disclose how much they have in widespread in spite of deep heritage and devout differences.